The Bangor YMCA has hired Timothy Bryce as fitness director. Bryce holds a bachelor’s degree in sports biology from Springfield College in Springfield, Mass. He has a background in orthopedic and sports rehabilitation through working with both public and collegiate athletes. Phillip Mateja has been hired as assistant fitness director. Mateja has been a licensed certified athletic trainer for nearly 30 years. Amy Clark has been hired as youth and family director. Clark has been a YMCA volunteer since 1995 and has taught classes in aquatics and fitness since 1996, when she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health fitness from the University of Maine. Courtney Collins is the new assistant youth and family director. Collins is a 1998 graduate of UMaine with a bachelor’s degree in child development and family studies.

Tristan Richards is Maine Public Broadcasting’s new director of operations, based in Bangor. Richards will supervise master control and transmission control, generate traffic logs and develop policies and procedures for a new digitally automated broadcasting department. He also is an instructor at the New England School of Communications in Bangor.

Michael N. Young has joined the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town as a project manager in the engineering division. Young holds a civil engineering degree from the University of Maine and brings 22 years of experience in engineering design and construction. Young has patented the design of an excess-air waste fuel incineration process and has received recognition for energy innovation from the federal government and the Maine Office of Energy Resources.

Jennifer L. Kimball has been promoted to quality control manager at the Thomaston plant of Dragon Cement and Concrete. Kimball joined Dragon in 1997 as plant chemist and laboratory supervisor. She is a 1997 graduate of the University of Maine in chemical engineering.

Donald P. White has been named the sixth president of the 77-year-old Prentiss & Carlisle Co. Inc., a Bangor-based timberland management and forest products company. White joined the company as a controller in 1987 and was elected treasurer in 1997. The company also has promoted Michael J. O’Connor to chief financial officer. O’Connor is a 1994 accounting graduate of Husson College and will be responsible for the financial and accounting functions as well as supervision of the main office staff. Additionally, Timothy Beaulier, a 1975 graduate of the University of Maine’s forestry school, has been elected vice president and manager of the company’s Enfield Operations Division.